GOP's Frierson points to cost side of Medicaid expansion story

12:44 PM,
May 15, 2013

Written by

Sid Salter

Medicaid expansion won't come without budgetary consequences in Mississippi. That's the message circulated this week by the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee to the state's education lobby leaders as the time left for reauthorization of Medicaid for FY 2014 draws shorter.

With pressure from Democratic colleagues in the Legislature, public health advocacy groups and most of the state's hospitals growing for Medicaid expansion, state Rep. Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, sent a letter to every college president, community college president, county and ...